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I with faire etrnt ffice IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWING AND TWISTING HEAD FOR SPINNING.

dln Srlgchnle referia tu iu ligne tettrrs 332mm mit maling -pnt ut tige time 'lO ALL WI-IOM I'I MAY CONCERN: y i Bc it known that I, FERDINAND SPINEUX, of Liege, Belgium, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Spinning Wool and other fibrous materials; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the'construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification.

Thisl invention' relates to a modeof constructing and arranging certain apparatus' or parts of machineryemployed in the formation of a roving or sliver, used in spinning wool and other fibrous materials, and in the formation of a thread whereby, in performing simultaneously the two operations of drawing and twisting the rove or slii'er or partially-formedthread, I am enabled to impart the amount of twist which is necessary for the even drawing by therollcr, and to vary the proportion between the twist and the draught; and it consists mainly in the application to the drawing lroller of a notched guide for directing the thread thereon, in such manner that the `friction between the rove or sliver or partially-formed thread, and the cylinder or roller upon which the same is wound, may prevent the said rove or sliver from slipping.

To enable others toy make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation by referring to the drawings'. f

To one extremity of a tube, A, there is attached a driving-pulley, A', and tothe other end a frame carrying a single drawing-roller,"D, attached to a worm-wheel, C, or bevel-wheel, as shown, orto ,other suitable gearing capable of engaging with a spiral worm or screw-thread, b, or with a bevel-wheel or other gearing upon the end of` the tube l. This spiral worm or screw-'thread is formed upon the inside of a hollow tube, Z, which eneompassesthetubc A, and is enlarged at one end, forming aange, or otherwise shaped so as to cause the said worm or screw-thread to engage with the teeth of the above-mentbncd worm-wheel. To the tubel is attached a pulley, B, which is fitted over 'or upon the tube A, so as to turn easily the one within theother, so that either can be caused to rotate independently of thc other in whichever direction circumstances may require, the tube A being rotated by the pulley A attached thereto. The pulleys A- and B are now connected with suitable driving apparatus of such kind thatidiilerent Vvelocitiesrof rotation can be imparted to each simultaneously. This apparatus is placed between the ordinary feed-rollers of a roving or spinning machine and the flier and bobbin or the cop upon which the rove or sliver is to be wound, and the said rove or sliver is caused to pass from 'the'ord'inary feed-rollers abovemcntioned along the axis of the tube A, and around the drawing-roller D, and to be wound one or more times evenly upon said roller by means ofV the notched guide e, as shown in Figures 7 and 8, so that the friction between the ,rove or sliver, and thecylinder or roller upon which the same is wound, may prevent the saidrove or sliver from slipping, and I then cause the said tubes A and Z to rotate at different velocities, inisuch'ma'nner that the roller D will twist the rove or sliver, and the said rove or sliver be wound upon the roller D more rapidly than the sameis delivered to it, and so that the drawing is thereby effected in any degreehch may be required, and the amount of drawing and twist imparted to the rove or sliver be regulated at pleasure. I would also remark that I find it advantageous to increase the diameter of the roller gradually towards the end where the rove or sliver. finally leaves it, Awhereby any slipping of the same is rendered nearly impossible. i

Having now fully described .the nature of said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not intend to claim any of the mechanical parts of the apparatus above described separately andapart from the application andcombinatien thereof, as hereinbeforc described, as being any part of `the invention, and that I do claim as of the invntioni fyi Theroller D and its guide e, for directing the course of the. thread `thereon, in combination with the hollow pindles A substantially as shown and described.

As witness my hand and seal the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

FR. SPINEUX. [L. 5.]

Witnessesi l A. LAMAncHE JAMAR, Industriel, Lige. AD. GHYs, Employ Seraing. 

